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Veritas Flex Appliance Getting Started and Administration Guide
Last Published:
2023-01-31
Product(s):
Appliances (2.1.4, 2.1.3, 2.1.2, 2.1.1, 2.1)
Platform: Flex Appliance OS
- Product overview
- Release notes
- Flex Appliance 2.1 new features, enhancements, and changes
- Flex Appliance 2.1.1 new features, enhancements, and changes
- Flex Appliance 2.1.2 new features, enhancements, and changes
- Flex Appliance 2.1.3 new features, enhancements, and changes
- Flex Appliance 2.1.4 new features, enhancements, and changes
- Supported upgrade paths to this release
- Operational notes
- Flex Appliance 2.1 release content
- Flex Appliance 2.1.1 release content
- Flex Appliance 2.1.2 release content
- Flex Appliance 2.1.3 release content
- Flex Appliance 2.1.4 release content
- Getting started
- Initial configuration guidelines and checklist
- Performing the initial configuration
- Adding a node
- Accessing and using the Flex Appliance Shell
- Accessing and using the Flex Appliance Console
- Managing the appliance from the Appliance Management Console
- Setting the date and time for appliance nodes
- Common tasks in Flex Appliance
- Managing network settings
- Managing users
- Overview of the Flex Appliance default users
- Changing the password policy
- Managing Flex Appliance Console users and tenants
- Adding a tenant
- Editing a tenant
- Removing a tenant
- Adding a local user to the Flex Appliance Console
- Connecting a remote user domain to the Flex Appliance Console
- Importing a remote user or user group to the Flex Appliance Console
- Editing a remote user domain in the Flex Appliance Console
- Changing a local user password in the Flex Appliance Console
- Expiring local user passwords in the Flex Appliance Console
- Removing users from the Flex Appliance Console
- Managing user authentication with smart cards or digital certificates
- Changing the hostadmin user password in the Flex Appliance Shell
- Changing the sysadmin user password in the Veritas Remote Management Interface
- Using Flex Appliance
- Managing the repository
- Creating application instances
- Managing application instances from Flex Appliance and NetBackup
- Managing application instances from Flex Appliance
- Upgrading application instances
- Updating an application instance to a newer revision
- About Flex Appliance upgrades and updates
- Appliance security
- Monitoring the appliance
- Reconfiguring the appliance
- Troubleshooting guidelines
Viewing instance performance metrics
You can view live performance metrics of all of the instances on your appliance from the support shell command view in the Flex Appliance Shell.
To view instance performance metrics
- Log in to the Flex Appliance Shell on the node that you want to view performance metrics for.
Enter the following commands:
support shell
ctop
The following information displays for each of the instances on the node, including the Flex Appliance infrastructure instances:
CID: An instance identifier
CPU: The CPU usage of the instance
MEM: The memory usage of the instance
NET RX/TX: The amount of data that is being transmitted and received
IO R/W: The amount of data that is being read from and written to the instance storage disk(s)
PIDS: The total number of processes that are running on the instance
- When you are done reviewing the information, enter q to return to the main Flex Appliance Shell view.